The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-09-15
A NEW BLESSING.
THE NUMEROUS ADVANTAGES OF
LUMINOUS WALLPAPER.
A Room Papered with It Can Never Be-
come Dark-Handy for the Nursery,
the ParIOr, the Hail, and
the Bed-RoOm.
[Chicago Herald. !


The ingenuity of man is constantly Civ
ing to The world new blessings Some OF
these come from unexpected and humble
sources. and are not, therefore, accorded
that ready appreciation which they de-
serve. Many valuable inventions, promis-
ing large and diversified benefits to the
race, have at first been received with cold
indifference by people who, upon suddenly,
realizing the boon given'them are amazed
at their own lukewarmness and lack of
perception Such instances are of almost
daily occurrence.
Most newspaper readers have heard
something of the luminous wall paper
which a German mechanic declares can
lie easily and cheaply manufactured, yet
it would be safe to say that few have
given serious thought to its real value
1t is not pretended that this paper has
sufficient of the luminous quality to make
lamps or gaslight unnecessary, but eXper-
ments have shown that in the absence of
artificial light a room papered with this
substance can never become dark.
Think of the advantages such paper
would give IN carrying on the ordinary
routine of household Timid children
could be put to sleep without a lamp in
the nursery. The wife could 90 to an
unlighted room to find her thimble with
out taking the lamp away from the hus-
bands reading table, and by her delay
starting one of those periodical discussions
on the value of place for everything
and everything in its place which in some
cases have been known to result in bad
temper, staying down town, and even di-
vorce
House numbers and keyholes are
already provided with luminosity for the
benefit of men who are detained at the.
office, but this is only the beginning. The
hall should be similarly illumined, in order
that the belated one may be able to unite
his shoes without drawing the strings into
a hard knot, and that he may effect a
passage without knocking down the hat
rack The walls of the sitting room should
be similarly treated, so that he will not
mistake the dim gray mantel for bar and
disturb the household by his expostula-
tions with an imaginary gentleman behind
1t, whose refusal promptly to obey orders
is always regarded as an insult by tired
gentlemen who have been detained so late
at the office. If the bedroom has been
likewise endowed with light there will be
Jess danger of his hanging his garments on
the floor and his boots upon an imaginary
peg situated at the top of the bed-head in
a direct vertical line above the face of his
sleeping wife
When parlOrs shall have been papered
with this luminous blessing the fathers of
ambitious daughters can retire unworried
about the accumulatiOns of the gas bill
And as for the young ladies and their
callers, the soft, mellow luminosity of the
parlor walls-not too bright, but bright
enough-will be to them Joy and de-
light. It will remind of the
pale moon, and yet cause them
no anxious thoughts of possible silhou-
cites upon the window curtains, to be
seen by rude passers by And when the
long, long dreaded hour of parting comes,
and they have at length reached the hall,
final ceremonies may be carried on with
out fear on her part that he will in the
darkness miss his aim and salute her upon
the end of her nose, and without linger-
ing and unsatisfactory suspicion in his
mind as he hastens hOmeward that she has
a dreadful cold in her head.
- With luminous walls in her dom cle
the wife who rises in the dead of night to
see if her husbands socks need mending,
and. incidentally, if he has any loose
change in his pantaloons pockets, need
not bring unjust suspicion upon herself
by striking a match The man of the
house can sneak into the pantry after that
mince pie without danger of tipping the
castor over or spiling the milk.
He can also go down cellar after bucket
of coal without falling over his boys sled
and tangling his legs up with the runners
and coal scutt e.
In short, the uses to which this device
can be put in the household are number
less, and the value of the invention is in
estimable. For once the world should
not be slow to appreciate and generally
utilize great boon given it by a humble
but unselfsh discoVerer.